The national community solar beat: program dockets and capacity blocks, project awards, subscriber acquisition, and the developers and operators building the market. New episodes Tuesday and Thursday. Produced with AI.
The Low-Income Subscriber Just Got Valuable Enough To Fight Over
Neighborhood Sun quadruples its New York footprint by buying Meadow Energy's sixty-seven-project portfolio, with Climate First Bank backing the deal specifically for its low- and moderate-income subscriber reach. Meanwhile, Maine's Public Advocate is telling a dozen community solar companies to stop pitching low-income bill-assistance customers a worse deal than the one they already qualify for. Ray and Della on going after the same subscriber for the right reasons versus the wrong ones.
Sources:
Neighborhood Sun Acquires Meadow Energy and Community Solar Portfolio | Solar Power World | https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/neighborhood-sun-acquires-meadow-energy-and-community-solar-portfolio/
Maine OPA Warns Community Solar Farms of Misleading Appeals to Low-Income Customers | Maine Public | https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2026-10-26/maine-opa-warns-community-solar-farms-of-misleading-appeals-to-low-income-customers
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22 Oct 2026
The Dirtiest Lot in Maine Just Got a Second Life, and Illinois Brought Sheep
Nautilus Solar turns a toxic former circuit-board recycling site in Sanford, Maine into a 7 megawatt community solar farm serving over 960 subscribers, the show's first Maine story and Nautilus's third state in two months. Plus: Generate Capital and TurningPoint Energy energize the first site in an eight-project Illinois portfolio, with grazing sheep and a nearly $70 million savings projection to show for it.
Sources:
Generate Capital and TurningPoint Energy Energize 3.5 MWac Community Solar Project in Sandwich, Illinois | Solar Power World | https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/3-5-mw-community-solar-project-completed-in-illinois-shines-program/
Nautilus Solar Energizes 7 MW Community Solar Farm on a Former Contaminated Circuit-Board Recycling Site in Sanford, Maine | Energies Media | https://energiesmedia.com/17-acre-maine-lot-once-buried/
Sponsored by Our Power Co. — you build the solar, we bring the community. Community solar customer acquisition for developers and operators. Looking to subscribe and lower your own bill? Go to https://joincommunity.solar
Produced with AI. https://communitysolar.news
20 Oct 2026
The Land Nobody Wanted Is Having a Moment: Apples, a Superfund Site, and the Money That Followed
A four-hundred-year-old Massachusetts orchard grows solar around its trees, a former Superfund zinc smelting site in Illinois turns into a city tax line, and two very different financing deals, one a developer's first-ever term loan, one a $387 million bet on Illinois and Maryland, show the capital is following. Four wins, no heads-up, the same beat proving itself on land and on paper.
Sources:
BlueWave's Three-Site Dual-Use Community Solar Finalist in Granville, Massachusetts | Solar Builder Magazine | https://solarbuildermag.com/projects/vote-1-mw-to-10-mw-2026-project-of-the-year-awards/
AC Power Turns a Former EPA Superfund Zinc Smelting Site Into Community Solar in Hillsboro, Illinois | Solar Builder Magazine | https://solarbuildermag.com/projects/vote-1-mw-to-10-mw-2026-project-of-the-year-awards/
Pivot Energy Closes Its First Term Loan: $173 Million for 51 Community-Scale Solar Projects | Pivot Energy (via Pulse 2.0) | https://pulse2.com/pivot-energy-closes-173-million-term-loan-with-first-citizens-bank-huntington-bank-and-bankunited/
Aligned Climate Capital Lands $387 Million to Build Out 126 MW of Community Solar Across Illinois and Maryland | PV Tech | https://www.pv-tech.org/aligned-climate-capital-nexamp-secure-finance-community-solar-projects/
Sponsored by Our Power Co. — you build the solar, we bring the community. Community solar customer acquisition for developers and operators. Looking to subscribe and lower your own bill? Go to https://joincommunity.solar
Produced with AI. https://communitysolar.news
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